Celebrating Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story
The world certainly mourns when a great man dies. Today, we celebrate the life of one such great leader who did right by and for their people. Lee Kuan Yew, the man credited with building…
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Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute: Time to Act Strategically? (Part 2)
In an interesting twist of events, the Ivorian government formally requested the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a suspension of oil exploration and production activities in the disputed maritime boundary…
Socio-Economic and Governance Conditions in Ghana – The State of the Nation By IEA-Ghana
Extract from the latest and damning IEA Report on the most important problems confronting the country. I dare say this is the ‘real’ state of the nation. Generally, the report corroborates other findings in the…
Turning Organic Waste into Gold Dust
This is one of the policy initiatives I will vigorously pursue to diversify Ghana’s energy mix, were I to have the chance. All public schools (especially the secondary schools), municipal and district assemblies and communities…
Middle Class Activism, Regional Devolution and Cocoa Politics in the Gold Coast (Circa 1955)
Extracts from The Times newspaper of 1955 (1) “Throughout the country the middle classes, men in the upper ranks of the law; the professions and education are instinctively against the C.P.P. These middle classes interrelated…
Ghana’s Economy: The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
Post the Senchi consensus and ongoing IMF bailout talks, one would have thought that the Government will make firm commitments to reduce these two line items which continue to constrain the fiscal space: PAYROLL COSTS…
GHANA’S TIER TWO-PENSION SCHEME AND MATTERS ARISING
For those who want to understand the impasse between labour unions and government on the tier two pensions scheme, I entreat you to read the National Pensions Act, 2008 (Act 766) and ancillary regulations. SSNIT…
BOOK REVIEW: IS THIS WHY AFRICA IS? BY MARRICKE KOFI GANE (AUTHOR)
Review by Theo Acheampong Africa today is a continent of almost 1 billion people, and has witnessed a remarkable growth story over the past decade —growth rates have averaged over 5% year-on-year over the past…
GHANA’S MIDDLE CLASS, POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND ECONOMIC REFORMS
Do you know that the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions were all led by discontented middle-class individuals? Middle-class status is defined by education, occupation and the ownership of assets. These are far more consequential in…
Adverse Effects of Bank of Ghana’s Monetary Policy Measures on the Cedi
Post by Theo Acheampong.
Genetically Modified Foods in Africa: The Debate Rages on
As Africa becomes the latest battleground for GMOs, many a one-sided opinion piece led by pro-GMO scientists, companies and lobbies across Africa are driving an agenda to push national lawmakers to pass favourable legislations which…
The Accra Monorail System
ver wondered about the possibility of building a comprehensive and well integrated Rapid Mass Transit System (Metro-System) that is rail based and truly functional in Accra? The Accra Monorail System is an excellent concept which…
Crude Oil Find in Ghana & Cote D’Ivoire: Time to Act Strategically? (Part 1)
This week, international news media reported that France’s Total had struck oil on the CI-100 block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. The block is very close to the Jubilee and TEN…
Data in Development Planning: The Ghana Open Data Initiative
One positive thing I came across last week was the Ghana Open Data initiative. This initiative facilitated by the Ministry of Communications and spearheaded by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), the IT implementing…
On Budget Deficits: US and Ghana
So President Obama last night enacted wide-ranging $85 billion spending cuts in a bid to close the deficit. Total public debt in the US was approximately $11.822 trillion or about 74% of GDP. About 48%…